2012 Back to the Classics Challenge


As part of my goal to balance out my reading in 2012, I joined my first challenge: Back to the Classics. Categories are listed below, and books with a strikethrough are books I have completed.

Any 19th Century Classic:
Anna Karenina by Leo Tolstoy
The Picture of Dorian Gray by Oscar Wilde
The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes by Sir Arther Conan Doyle
A Study in Scarlet by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle

Any 20th Century Classic
For Whom the Bell Tolls by Ernest Hemingway*
A Farewell to Arms by Ernest Hemingway*

Reread a classic of your choice
The Old Man and the Sea by Ernest Hemingway*

A Classic Play
Shakespeare. Shakespeare. Shakespeare.

Classic Mystery/Horror/Crime Fiction
The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes by Sir Arther Conan Doyle
The Maltese Falcon by Dashiell Hammett
The Thin Man by Dashiell Hammett
A Study in Scarlet by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle

Classic Romance
A Room With a View by E.M. Forster
Emma by Jane Austen

Read a Classic that has been translated from its original language to your language 
Anna Karenina by Leo Tolstoy

Classic Award Winner
All the King's Men by Robert Penn Warren (Pulitzer, 1947)
The Grapes of Wrath by John Steinbeck (Pulitzer, 1940)
The Spy Who Came in from the Cold by John le Carre (Edgar, 1965)

Read a Classic set in a Country that you will not visit during your lifetime
The Hobbit by J.R.R. Tolkien

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*Denotes a title that also satisfies my own goals as part of my 26 by 26 challenge

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